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wizzwizz4last Friday at 10:54 PM1 replyview on HN

The industrial revolution created slums. Social progress made those go away – and I'm sure the factory owners decried it just as vehemently.


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pennaManlast Friday at 11:00 PM

The industrial revolution also created clean drinking-water systems, sewerage and wastewater treatment, basic sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, mass-produced vaccination, antibiotics, antisepsis and sterilization, anesthesia, obstetric and neonatal care technology, refrigeration and cold-chain logistics, food safety and industrial food processing, pasteurization, canning, mechanized agriculture, synthetic fertilizers, modern crop breeding and seed systems, electrification and power grids, hospital infrastructure engineering and medical imaging.

To name a few.

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